Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2017
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond the Turing Test
Video overview: https://vimeo.com/226955559
Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge
Carissa Schoenick discusses "Moving Beyond the Turing Test with the Allen AI Science Challenge" (http://cacm.acm.org…
From insideHPC
Adrian Cockcroft on how AWS Gives Superpowers to Startups
In this video from AWS Summit in Tel Aviv, Adrian Cockcroft describes how AWS gives Superpowers to Startups. "AWS offers low cost, on-demand IT solutions to help you build and launch your applications quickly and easily with
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots in Retail
Good piece, with expert discussion. Consider how any assistant model could evolve into recommendation. Does this work? What does it need to make the model work? What aspects of dialog are most important?
Will chatbots leadCristian…
From insideHPC
Rigetti Computing helps Foster Quantum Machine Learning Startup Ecosystem
While practical Quantum Computing remains somewhere in the future, it is already starting to spark new Startup opportunities. "Quantum machine learning will power some of the most impactful and exciting near-term applications…
From insideHPC
OSC Supercomputers Power STEM Learning Across the Globe
The Ohio Supercomputer Center is help teachers like Sultana Nahar, Ph.D. conduct computational workshops as part of her lecture courses. Through physics and STEM courses and workshops, Nahar has been improving the computational…
From insideHPC
Internode Programming With MPI and Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"While MPI was originally developed for general purpose CPUs and is widely used in the HPC space in this capacity, MPI applications can also be developed and then deployed with the Intel Xeon Phi Processor. With the understanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising's Amazon Problem
Brought to my attention.
Madison Avenue's Amazon Problem By Leila Abboud in Bloomberg
When you run an advertising agency, your clients' problems are your problems. That's why Martin Sorrell, the CEO of WPP Plc, has spent so much…
From Computational Complexity
Kurtz-Fest
Stuart…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is a Robot?
New series of article in Wired: What is a Robot? Articles and videos.
Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a new video series, HardWIRED: Welcome to the Robotic Future, in which we explore the many fascinating machines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sectors without Borders
And how will regulations adjust to these global digital conditions?
Competing in a world of sectors without borders
By Venkat Atluri, Miklos Dietz, and Nicolaus Henke in McKinsey
Digitization is causing a radical reordering of
Rakuten…
From Schneier on Security
Massive Government Data Leak in Sweden
Seems to be incompetence rather than malice, but a good example of the dangers of blindly trusting the cloud....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics Communicates in Natural Language
In an interesting cognitive/AI development, Google Analytics can answer queries in natural language, another move in the direction of analytics assistant. Not unexpected from a company with Googles AI/Cognitive abilities:
Ask…
From insideHPC
IEEE Approves Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions
"While Quantum Computing is poised for significant growth and advancement, the emergent industry is currently fragmented and lacks a common communications framework,” said Whurley (William Hurley), chair, IEEE Quantum Computing…
From insideHPC
Podcast: A Look at the Intel Nevana Platform for AI
In this Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Naveen Rao describes his work at the Artificial Intelligence Products Group (AIPG) at Intel. "The Intel Nervana Platform includes what you need to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art deep…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food, Retail Aim for Blockchain Ledger Data
A considerable endorsement of a technology. Where in more general terms is non-food is CPG? Is this mainly driven by food safety considerations?
Walmart and 9 Food Giants Team Up on IBM Blockchain Plans by Robert Hackett…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Walmart/Google Voices
More on this, with an interesting ongoing discussion. In Retailwire:
Will the Walmart/Google voice deal give Amazon’s Alexa a run for its money? by George Anderson
Move over Alexa. Walmart shoppers will soon be able to buy thousands…
From insideHPC
NCSA Industry Conference to Showcase Supercomputing Partnerships
Registration is now open for the 2017 NCSA Industry Conference. The event takes place Oct. 11-12 on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. "This year’s conference provides attendees with the opportunity to experience…
From insideHPC
Intel FPGAs Accelerate Microsoft’s Project Brainwave
Today, Intel announced that its AI technology is being used by Microsoft to power their new accelerated deep learning platform, called Project Brainwave. "Project Brainwave achieves a major leap forward in both performance and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Pneumatic Actuated Soft Micromold (PASMO) Device
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Po-Jung Huang and Jun Kameoka. Their paper called Pneumatic Actuated Soft Micromold (PASMO) device for Creating 3D Collagen Microparticles was one of the featured talks at the Computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charging Moving Vehicles
In Spectrum IEEE
Wireless Power for Moving Electric Vehicles Closer to Reality By Charles Q. Choi
Two men stand in front of and beneath a pair of large white wheels trimmed with copper foil. Electronic equipment hangs from…
From insideHPC
ANSYS 18.2 Enhances Simulation Speed and Accuracy
Today ANSYS 18.2 was released. This latest release brings increased levels of accuracy, speed and ease-of-use – spurring more engineers to use simulation across every stage of the product lifecycle to design cutting-edge products…
From Schneier on Security
Your Personal Bodycam
Shonin is a personal bodycam up on Kickstarter. There are a lot of complicated issues surrounding bodycams -- for example, it's obvious that police bodycams reduce violence -- but the one thing everyone is certain about is that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Powering new Chips with Better Algorithms
A continued race between hardware and software ...
We Need Next Generation Algorithms To Harness The Power Of Today's AI Chips
by Greg Diamos is the Head of Systems Research at Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab.
At the GTC technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Walmart Team Up
New multi retailer giant teaming proposed.
Watch out Amazon: Google and Walmart form e-commerce alliance to battle online retail giant By Nat Levy
" ... Starting in late September, customers will be able to make Walmart purchases…
From BLOG@CACM
Keynotes at SIGIR 2017
This article summarizes the keynotes in the main session and from the Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval.
From ACM on Huffington Post
How Machine Learning Advances Will Improve the Fairness of Algorithms
By Jennifer T. Chayes, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director, Microsoft Research, and ACM Fellow Machine learning
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning for Photography
Worked in this space, interesting how this was able to break through.
Supercharging your image: Machine learning for photography applications
Advanced capabilities for image retrieval and processing are relatively new and powered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, Machine Learning Cheat Sheets
I am intrigued by the notion of 'cheat sheets'. These are short, usually visual reference sheets for complex topics. They can be useful for reference of you are an expert in a topic, and you just need the syntax, or if…
From insideHPC
New Study Uncovers Best Practices for Effective Partnerships between Public HPC Centers and Industrial Users
Today NCSA and Hyperion Research released a new study that examines HPC and Industry partnerships. Aimed at identifying and understanding best practices in partnerships between public high performance computing centers and private…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frequent Flaw of AI Implementation
Good cautious piece regarding implementation in the complex enterprise. But hardly unique to AI. Cae of any analytics, unless you are plugging a number into a strictly defined process control system. Results are statistical…